John T Davis Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Hello, The forum I help administer is a private, members-only installation. Nothing should be visible to persons not logged in, and so far that's all working perfectly. I cannot find any settings to disable search engine robots from crawling our members-only content. I'm not seeing that content when I google the names of forum threads, but I'm not sure that means it's not being indexed somehow anyway. Question: how can I disable search engine indexing for everything except the login page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CP_User Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 (edited) https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062608?hl=en&visit_id=637342512677318607-2263598534&rd=1 robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: / I'm sure there's more to it than that, but have a read through the Google link. Edited August 28, 2020 by CP_User Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriano Faria Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 56 minutes ago, John T Davis said: Hello, The forum I help administer is a private, members-only installation. Nothing should be visible to persons not logged in, and so far that's all working perfectly. I cannot find any settings to disable search engine robots from crawling our members-only content. I'm not seeing that content when I google the names of forum threads, but I'm not sure that means it's not being indexed somehow anyway. Question: how can I disable search engine indexing for everything except the login page? If your board isn’t accessible to guests, it won’t be indexed. You don’t need to do anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Davis Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said: If your board isn’t accessible to guests, it won’t be indexed. You don’t need to do anything. Excellent! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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